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The History Of the most Noble Order of the Garter : Wherein is set forth An Account of the Town Castle, Chapel, and College of Windsor; with their several Officers ; The Foundation of the Order by King Edward III. ; With the Statutes, and Annals at large, as they have been altered and amended ; An Account of the Habits, Ensigns and Officers of the Order ... To which is prefix'd, A Discourse of Knighthood in General, and the several Orders extant in Europe
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ral Practice at other Times hath been of keeping oh theHabit till the Dinner is ended.

At the fecond Courfe, called alfo fecond Mefs, or fe-cond Service, Garter, accompanied with the Officers ofArms, Proclaims the Stiles and Titles of Honour of theSovereign (if he be perfonally, or by his Lieutenant, pre-fenr,) in Latin, French, and Englifh, and cries Largefs thricejnext the Stiles of the new inftalled Knights in French, orEnglifh only, with two Largefles,and in that Order they wereinftalled. And thus it was at the Inftallation of Charles,Duke of York_, 9 Jac. I. of Frederick^, Prince Palatine, 10Jac.l. and the Earl of Bjttland, and others, 14 Jac. L

Philip, King of Caftile, Dined with the Sovereign inhis Privy-Chamber, n Henry VII. whofe Stile was Pro-claimed by Garter, not in the fame Room, but at the So-vereign’s great Chamber-Door, and in St. George’s Had,after Largefs had been thrice cryed. When the Sovereignconftitutes a Lieutenant, then is the Lieutenant s Stilealfo Proclaimed, and to his other Honours is added thisof his Lieutenancy, and afterwards the Stiles of the newinftalled Knights, as 3 Eli%. But the Order of this Cere-mony is more particularly obferved at the Inftallation ofthe Duke dt Montmorency, and others, 14 Elt\. wherefirft Garter cried Largefs, and next Proclaimed the So-vereign’s Stile, G?c. in three Languages, then fteppingtwo Foot back, Proclaims the Lieutenant’s Stile in Frenchonly, with two Largefles; and after that, he cried oneLa r gefs for the Duke ; and laftlv, for all the other newinftalled Knights, only two LargdTeS, and the Officers ofArms did the like ; and ftill as Garter had finifhed hisProclamation, the Heralds joined with him in cryingLargefs, and fo with Reverence departed the Hall.

But laftly, it is proper to obferve, that when neitherthe Sovereign, nor his Lieutenant, are prefent,. then theSovereign’s Stfle is not Proclaimed, nor thofe of the Com-millioners, but only of the new inftalled Knights.

As foon as Dinner is ended, the Knights-Companionsrife from Table, and withdraw to difrobe themfelves,and therewith the Solemnity of Inftallation ends: Andif at any time the Solemnity continues that Evening, andthe following Day, it is only becaufe the Sovereign forhis Lieutenant,) is prefent, on account of celebrating St.Georges Feaft and not with reference to ths Inftalla-

 
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